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A ref21 reader has written to remind me of another good use for apologetics. According to Calvin, we need apologetics not so much "to convert the hearts of the ungodly but to stop their obstreperous mouths." One wonders what Richard Dawkins would have to say about that! I am reminded of something...

Not quite! Rather, an Englishman in Mississippi. It's been an education having Dr. Trueman in the heart of Mississippi for few days. Despite the obvious deep-seated, Freudian angst that he's not Welsh, he has managed to deconstruct American culture in scintillating fashion. Most memorable, apart...

Well, I too have enjoyed Mississippi. Most interesting was the comparison of ringtones on my cellphone with that of Del. I have the climax of The Who's `Won't get fooled again,' Del has `Ride of the Valkyries.' Now, who do you think suffers from the most serious delusions of grandeur???

It's official. The American Psychological Association has found that the sexualisation of girls and young women is harmful. Yes indeedy -- now we know that the portrayal of women as sex objects is not a good thing. Incredible, I know, but there you have it. Check the story at http://comment...

In doing a little research on William Wilberforce this week (in anticipation of this week's release of the film Amazing Grace , which marks the 200th anniversary of the slave trade in the British Empire), I stumbled across a quotation that confirms the truth of Carl's recent post on humility...

Baker Academic has now posted online a PDF excerpt of Kelly Kapic's new book, Communion with God: The Divine and Human in the Theology of John Owen . The PDF contains J. I. Packer's foreword, the table of contents, and the first chapter. As Packer says, "This is a landmark book in modern Puritan...

Mississippi was great fun. Getting to meet `Nate-Dog' and `The Gnome' and the various other criminal Welsh-types who gather around Ref21 was a pleasure. And staying at a hotel where the guy behind the desk looked like Rod Steiger in `In the Heat of the Night' and who spoke in a strange language of...

IVP-UK is set to publish a landmark work: Pierced for Our Transgressions: Rediscovering the Glory of Penal Substitution . (Clicking on the link will take you to a website for the book. You can also order it from Amazon.com/uk --it is due out in mid-March.) The authors of the book are Mike Ovey,...

No doubt the blogosphere will be agog today over James Cameron's announcement (he of Titanic fame) that he has found the tomb of Jesus (and his son, of all people). The first advance notice I saw of today's press conference was on Tim McGirk's Time/CNN blog from the Middle East this past weekend...

I am very pleased to announce that Dan Doriani's commentary on James has just been released -- a very handsome volume. In the interests of full disclosure, I should mention that it is in the Reformed Expository Commentary series that Rick Phillips and I are editing.